Banana fertilizer. How to make and use?
Banana fertilizer – more precisely from it’s peel, is a great way to provide plants with phosphorus and potassium. These elements have a beneficial effect on the flowering and health of garden plants, as well as improve the taste of vegetables such as tomatoes.
So, when you eat a banana, don’t throw away its peel! Using it to feed plants is child’s play. See how to make banana fertilizer and how to use it to bring the most benefits to your plants. Here are 5 proven ways to use banana peels to fertilize your plants.
Banana is one of the most popular fruit people buy and eat. It is not only tasty but also has many minerals, including a lot of potassium and phosphorus. These elements are in banana peels, and based on them, you can prepare home fertilizer for potted flowers, garden flowers, as well as for vegetables and fruit shrubs.
Banana peel fertilizer
Banana peel fertilizer is especially beneficial for flowering plants that need phosphorus and potassium to bloom profusely and for a long time. We also use banana fertilizer under roses or other plants attacked by aphids, as it will perfectly help to scare away these pests. Thanks to the high potassium content, banana fertilizer is good solution for tomatoes.
5 ways to use banana peel to fertilize your plants:
- Cut banana peels into smaller pieces and dry them completely. To speed up the drying process, you can put the skin in the oven.
Then grind it into a fine powder or simply crush it and add it to the water. Mix everything together and set aside for a few days. Water your flowering plants with the banana fertilizer. - You can mixed dried and ground banana peel directly with the soil that you will use to plant your flowers.
- Cut banana peel into small pieces and bury it in the ground directly under the plant. In this way, the slowly decomposing peel will gradually supply the plant with minerals.
- Another way is banana peel silage. To make this banana fertilizer, you need peel and water. Pour the collected banana peels with boiled and cooled water.
Then mix it from time to time and leave it covered. The silage will be ready after approx. 2 weeks. Use this type of banana fertilizer diluted with water for watering your plants. Its potassium and phosphorus content is particularly well absorbed by the plant root system. - Banana peels, and whole bananas, are an excellent compost ingredient. They decompose quickly at high temperatures, which improves the structure of the compost and accelerates the breakdown of other compost components. Before throwing them into the composter, it is a good idea to slice whole bananas or their skins.
If you want to attract more butterflies, it’s a good idea to put some small pieces of banana pulp in a few spots in the flowerbeds, which will lure the butterflies into your garden almost immediately.
